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Tony Romo and the Cowboys were 12-1 before dropping two of their final three games in the regular season. But Dallas was getting back wide receiver Terrell Owens, who had missed the regular season finale against the Washington Redskins.

Getting the wideout back was big for Dallas as he had set a new franchise record with 15 touchdowns in the regular season.

The Cowboys were heavy favorites (-7.5), naturally, as they downed Big Blue in both games during the regular season, scoring 76 points combined in those two meetings.

New York got the scoring started on their opening drive when Eli Manning connected with Amani Toomer on a 12-yard curl that turned into a 52-yard touchdown.

Toomer made a move to the sideline to get around four Cowboys defenders, giving the Giants a 7-0 lead. The touchdown was a big momentum push for Big Blue as scoring first is always key, especially for a road team.

The Giants were nicknamed road warriors that season after they went on a 10-game winning streak on the road after losing the regular season opener in Dallas.

After a punt by each team, Dallas answered with a pair of touchdowns on back-to-back drives. The first one to went to Terrell Owens on a drive that the Cowboys relied on the run attack courtesy of Marion Barber. Barber then scored on the second noted drive for Dallas with a one-yard touchdown.

The drive chewed up all but 53 seconds of the first half, giving the Giants the ball back with the clock working against them before halftime.

Manning and the Giants orchestrated a drive down the field to try and get some points going into halftime. After a pair of Steve Smith first downs and a little help from a Cowboys facemask, the Giants were all the sudden looking for a touchdown instead of field goal as they found themselves just outside the red zone.

After a catch by Kevin Boss got the Giants inside the Dallas 5-yard line, Manning and Toomer hooked up for a score for the second time in the game, evening the score to end the second quarter,

The Cowboys regained the lead with a field goal to open the second half, but the Giants would answer a couple of drives later.

The scoring drive started with a big 25-yard punt return by R.W. McQuarters. Steve Smith continued to be a key for the Giants in the game as he caught another pair of key catches on that drive. Brandon Jacobs eventually concluded the drive with 1-yard touchdown to give Big Blue a 21-17 lead.

The remainder of the fourth quarter was occupied by drives ending with punts for both teams. That was, of course, until the dramatics of the Cowboys’ final drive.

Jeff Feagles punted the ball away to Patrick Crayton who returned it to the Giants 48 where the Cowboys would start the drive with plenty of time (1:50) left on the clock.

Tony Romo was able to get the Cowboys to the 23-yard line to attempt a couple shots to get into the end zone. After incompletions on second and third down, it set up 4th-and-11 with 16 seconds left and no timeouts for Dallas. On that fourth down play, Romo threw the ball into double coverage where R.W. McQuarters came up with the interception.

The interception sealed the game for Big Blue, advancing them to the NFC Championship Game and pulling them to just one victory away from a trip to Super Bowl XLII.

It wasn’t going to be an easy task for the Giants as they would have to go into Lambeau Field to deal with frigid temperatures. As if that wasn’t enough, the Packers had already beaten the Giants in Week 2 of the regular season and held a 13-3 record that year.

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No task proved to be too tall for the Giants that year, especially on the road, but one could argue that there was no bigger victory than beating a Cowboy team who had swept them in the regular season.

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